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How can I prevent Lucid from changing the size of my shapes when typing?

  • December 16, 2025
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There is an autolayout behavior that seems to aggressively resize my boxes and blocks as follows.

How do I turn this off everywhere and not have to lock size (and unfortunately position) on every single block I add?   This behavior and the known work-around makes it pretty impossible to effectively use the software to make a specific layout -- which is the point of a drawing program.

 

Replicate:

I create a box or block

I explicitly size it and place it somewhere in my diagram.

I start typing text in the box.

At some point Lucid simply resizes the box.  This may be make it shorter, taller, or shrinking or expanding both dimensions

I have not asked it to resize the box, and now Lucid has messed up my diagram and I have to rearrange things.

 

When this repeats on literally every block in the diagram, my work productivity goes to zero and then actually becomes negative.